{"product_id":"stray-moments-9781421835754","title":"Stray Moments","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2024 Blue Light Poetry Prize \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eStray Moments\u003c\/em\u003e are incredibly deep in their understanding of the world and our place in it. These poems do not stray; they move like light through changes in the seasons and the loves and losses of all living things. In language and insight so precise that we grow dizzy on the \"cusp of ripeness and decay,\" Meyers shows how, as the December sun \"hangs low as if still leashed to night,\" so do we hold on; how robins in February can make a heart \"soar;\" how it is possible to \"hear the light singing\/before the sun's rim\/edges over the ridge;\" and that always, \"Somewhere between\/here and the horizon sharks circle.\" These wonderful poems lead us to see how we might apprehend our own worlds, seen and unseen, and feel our \"heart a caged bird\/set free.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- Patricia Lee Lewis, award-winning poet, author of \u003cem\u003eA Kind of Yellow\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHigh Lonesome\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStray Moments\u003c\/em\u003e starts with an invitation to listen, and we can't help but respond and say, \"Yes, I see.\" From there, Meyers takes us on a journey that draws on the natural world, where everything witnessed is life \"on the cusp of joy and despair.\" Images of a \"hatchling,\" \"wet wings,\" \"silhouetted gulls,\" \"astral dust,\" and \"ghosts of butterflies,\" are married to ordinary rituals like \"grains of rice tossed at a wedding;\" a grandson building sandcastles; sectioning a grapefruit or savoring an ice cream cone; or coins at the Trevi fountain. These poems, painted with lines \"streaking cobalt water,\" \"fish flash[ing] silver,\" a \"sky pearl-gray,\" and water lilies \"sprouting rose and alabaster,\" welcome us into our own stray moments where we might reflect on \"how parallel lines can meet, \/ a space between\/mathematics and magic,\" how the \"apple blossom knows\/the hour to open, the acorn\/knows when to fall,\" and \"how to compose a coda\/ worthy of it all?\" Each poem in \u003cem\u003eStray Moments \u003c\/em\u003ecascades into the next and lingers long after you've turned the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e---Lisa DeVuono, 2024 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA, and author of \u003cem\u003eThis Time Roots, Next Time Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2024 Blue Light Poetry PrizeThe poems in Stray Moments are incredibly deep in their understanding of the world and our place in it. These poems do not stray; they move like light through changes in the seasons and the loves and losses of all living things. In language and insight so precise that we grow dizzy on the \"cusp of ripeness and decay,\" Meyers shows how, as the December sun \"hangs low as if still leashed to night,\" so do we hold on; how robins in February can make a heart \"soar;\" how it is possible to \"hear the light singing\/before the sun's rim\/edges over the ridge;\" and that always, \"Somewhere between\/he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16625125\"\u003eJoyce Meyers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Light Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421835754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421835754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023010\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Light Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48458966696173,"sku":"9781421835754","price":18.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_dfaf14c5-69c4-4d55-ba6d-84c4e3d3b48c.jpg?v=1753623163","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/stray-moments-9781421835754","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}